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COVID-19 pandemic ‘far from over,’ WHO says
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A World Well being Group (WHO) spokesperson stated on Friday that the tip of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good distance off, citing an increase in circumstances in its newest weekly information.
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The U.N. well being company has beforehand stated that the acute part of the pandemic may finish this yr, however it will rely on how rapidly we meet its goal to vaccinate 70% of the inhabitants in every nation, amongst different elements.
This {photograph} taken on March 5, 2021, reveals an indication of the World Well being Group (WHO) on the entrance of its headquarters in Geneva amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Requested by a journalist at a Geneva media briefing concerning the timing of the pandemic’s finish, Margaret Harris stated it was “removed from over”. “We’re positively in the midst of the pandemic,” she added.
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After greater than a month of decline, COVID-19 circumstances began to extend around the globe final week, the WHO stated, with lockdowns in Asia and China’s Jilin province battling to comprise an outbreak.
A mixture of things was inflicting the will increase, together with the extremely transmissible omicron variant and its cousin the BA.2 sub-variant, and the lifting of public well being and social measures, the WHO stated.